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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 06 15 1948
Description: Curlee Seals, Jr. discussing plans for his 1949 Soap Box Derby racer with three members of the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce, Curlee's sponsor for the...
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 06 14 1949
Description: Two men from Hult's Chevrolet consult with two youth on plans for a Soap Box Derby racer.
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby Volunteers

Date: 07 05 1949
Description: Looking over plans for a Soap Box Derby are volunteers Rolf Anderson, left, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.L.F. Anderson, DeForest, and Bobby Holm, son of Mr. and M...
Print

Check for Fredericka Lindenthald

Date: 12 19 1853
Description: A Wisconsin State bank check in the amount of $12.00 written to Fredericka Lindenthald from Samuel Marshall.
Photograph

U.S.A. National Service Life Insurance Policy

Date: 01 13 1950
Description: A person's hands holding two U.S.A. National Service Life Insurance Policies. About $60,000,000 in GI Insurance dividends will be divided among 347,000 Wis...
Photograph

Madison Heart Fund Drive

Date: 01 24 1950
Description: Mrs. Lindley V. (Virginia) Sprague and Mrs. George (Dorothy) Rentschler with the publicity materials they will use at information desks for the Madison Hea...
Photograph

Severson's Service Station Calendar

Date: 2008
Description: This beautiful 1940s calendar hangs on the wall at Monty's Blue Plate Diner.
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Registration

Date: 09 14 1967
Description: A group of students register for classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Poster

Fond Du Lac Badger Boys, of the First Regiment, State of Wisconsin

Date: 1861
Description: A hand-drawn poster, produced by S.W. Martin's Writing Academy of Madison, listing the officers and men of the 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, ...
Manuscript

Richland Co. Scott Guard of the Fifth Regiment

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Description: Pen-drawn poster listing the officers and men of Company H. Includes small oval portraits of some of the officers.
Poster

Kickapoo Rangers of the Twelfth Regiment

Date: 1861
Description: Hand-drawn poster by S.W. Martin of the Civil War officers and men of the Kickapoo Rangers of the 12th Regiment, Company K. Above and to the left of the li...
Photograph

Oil Progress Week Proclamation Signing

Date: 10 12 1951
Description: Madison mayor George Forster signs the proclamation to observe Oil Progress Week, while Arnold Wake (center), the general chairman for the observance, and ...
Photograph

Washington Orthopedic School Girl Scouts

Date: 03 07 1952
Description: Erna Schweppe showing members of her Troop No. 6 at Washington Orthopedic school a proclamation by Governor Walter Kohler recognizing the 40th anniversary ...
Historical Object

Application for Admission to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home

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Description: Application to admit a child to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, at Madison, Wisconsin, who had lost their father in the Civil War.
Photograph

Couple Receiving Marriage License

Date: 06 13 1952
Description: Dane County marriage license clerk Mercedes Dufour, (left), issues a license to Lucille A. Roth and Amos M. Skogen for their leap year wedding at the East ...
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsor

Date: 06 28 1952
Description: Two men from C.C. Collins and Sons, Inc. look over a color chart for their racers with two boys they are sponsoring in the soap box derby race. Left to rig...
Photograph

Three Women Proofreading Documents

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Description: Three women sitting at a table appear to be proofreading documents at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
Photograph

Lewis Arms's Driver's License

Date: 04 30 1946
Description: Lewis Arms's Wisconsin driver's license. This view of the document is in the negative.
Postcard

Young Men and Women Posing with Nun

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of a nun, one young man and five young women in front of a painted backdrop. The children are all ho...
Postcard

Young Woman with Diploma

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of a Young woman in front of a painted backdrop. She is standing posed next to a chair with a scroll...

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